HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Punic Wars
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Peloponnesian Wars
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Carthagian Wars
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Augustian Conquest
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Battle of Cannae was a major battle of the Second Punic War, taking place on August 2, 216 BC near the town of Cannae in Apulia in southeast Italy. The Carthaginian army under Hannibal destroyed a numerically superior Roman army under command of the consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hannibal (/ˈhænɪbəl/; Punic: , romanized: Ḥannībaʿl; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest military commanders in history.
Detailed explanation-3: -The battle of Zama was fought in 202 BC in modern Tunisia between a Roman army commanded by Publius Cornelius Scipio and a Carthaginian army commanded by Hannibal. The battle was part of the Second Punic War and resulted in such a severe defeat for the Carthaginians that they capitulated.